pow.ivyclient
Class HeartBeat

java.lang.Object
  pow.ivyclient.HeartBeat

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class HeartBeat
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.lang.Runnable

thread which send a periodic message to a client or server to say that the connection is still alive (period has to be less than the socket timeout of the the server)

Author:

genin

Constructor Summary

HeartBeat(AES cipher, int webId, java.net.InetAddress srv, int port2send, long heartbeatPeriod)
define the parameter of the heartbeat message

Method Summary

void	run() send a periodic heartbeat message
void	stop_thread() stop the heartbeat thread by ending the infinite loop

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HeartBeat

public HeartBeat(AES cipher,
                 int webId,
                 java.net.InetAddress srv,
                 int port2send,
                 long heartbeatPeriod)

define the parameter of the heartbeat message

Parameters:

cipher - the way to encrypt message to be send on udp channel

webId - the id of the bus

srv - the ip address of the host hosting the ivy bus

port2send - the udp port on which the heartbeat is sent

heartbeatPeriod - the period of time to send heartbeat message

Method Detail

run

public void run()

send a periodic heartbeat message

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

stop_thread

public void stop_thread()

stop the heartbeat thread by ending the infinite loop